📎 AI Summary:
The thread discusses how to delete or replace a Microsoft account on Windows 10. The original poster struggles with deleting the account and considers switching to another Microsoft account, with suggestions from others including creating a new account through Windows settings or using "control userpasswords2." The overall tone is helpful, with participants offering practical solutions and guidance on managing Windows user accounts.
The thread discusses how to delete or replace a Microsoft account on Windows 10. The original poster struggles with deleting the account and considers switching to another Microsoft account, with suggestions from others including creating a new account through Windows settings or using "control userpasswords2." The overall tone is helpful, with participants offering practical solutions and guidance on managing Windows user accounts.
Solution
If you don't want to go through Windows 10 new interface to manage accounts, you can click on Start, Type in Run, click on Run and type in "control userpasswords2" and hit enter. You can easily and quickly add/remove accounts this way.
so we talking about a Microsoft account here ? because a microsoft account is stored at Microsoft and your local machine only has a link to that account i.e, details in a Microsoft account should be change at their end first and in most cases that will be an email address
if its not a Microsoft account or you just want to add a normal local account then go ahead
if its not a Microsoft account or you just want to add a normal local account then go ahead
I have done this from time to time. If you are already using a Micosoft account, the quickest and easiest way is to open another Ms account under
"Family and users" - Add someone else to this PC. Use your new MS account as the "someone else". Log off, or reboot, and you will now see another logon choice, on the login screen, bottom left. Log in with that and you can then delete, or alter, your old account.
